Format
Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed)
Summary
- Name
- Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed)
- Version
- 2.1
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: image/tiff
- PUID: x-fmt/388
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras.
- File extensions
-
tif,tiff - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
-
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.1
- Tagged Image File Format for Electronic Photography (TIFF/EP)
- Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF)
- Tagged Image File Format for Internet Fax (TIFF-FX)
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.0
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.2
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.3
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.4
- Phase One IIQ Raw Image
- Hasselblad 3FR Raw Image
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.5
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.6
- Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.7
- Has priority over
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
EXIF Uncompressed Image 2.1 (big-endian, EXIF near EOF)
- Note
- TIFF header, EXIF IFD near EOF (EXIF ver=2.1)
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
4D4D002A- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 65535
- Byte Sequence
900000070000000430323130- Endianness
- None
EXIF Uncompressed Image 2.1 (little-endian, EXIF near EOF)
- Note
- TIFF header, EXIF IFD near EOF (EXIF ver=2.1)
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
49492A00- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 65535
- Byte Sequence
009007000400000030323130- Endianness
- None
EXIF Uncompressed Image 2.1 (big-endian, EXIF near BOF)
- Note
- TIFF header, EXIF IFD near BOF (EXIF ver=2.1). [NB: When the DROID bug associated with longest fragment not nearest anchor is fixed, the 2 BOF sequences can be merged.]
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
4D4D002A- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
{10-65535}900000070000000430323130- Endianness
- None
EXIF Uncompressed Image 2.1 (little-endian, EXIF near BOF)
- Note
- TIFF header, EXIF IFD near BOF (EXIF ver=2.1). [NB: When the DROID bug associated with longest fragment not nearest anchor is fixed, the 2 BOF sequences can be merged.]
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
49492A00- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 10
- Max offset
- 65535
- Byte Sequence
009007000400000030323130- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) 2.1: Added .tiff extension. Added description. Requested by National Library of New Zealand.
-
Updated in V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) 2.1: Priority information changed to avoid potential misidentification with Tagged Image File Format.
-
Added in V38
- Release date
- 1 August 2010
Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) - 2.1 (Uncompressed): Signature developed through DROID 5.0 research